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every thing may fucceed to the utmoft of your 
defires. 
Nor is it fit, ye fiorifhing and chofen youth, 
that on this folemn occafion i fhould pafs you 
over in filencei I have been long fenfible of 
your regard for me, by many, and undoubted 
proofs ; i have been long fenfible, i fay, and 1 
gratefullyacknowledge it. Many of you defired, 
ardently defired to have me in this ftation, 
though perhaps never feen by you before. For 
this alone, i know* i am called hither, that i 
may be ufeful to you. On you therefore my 
fortune turns. My induftry, my ftudies, my 
labors, my watchings, i willingly, and chear- 
fully confecrate to your fervice, and by the 
affiftance of God, i will exert the utmoft of 
my power to fatisfy your expectations, that 
you may not be difappointed in the hopes you 
have conceived of me. 
D a 
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